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Thursday marks Francesco Totti‘s 20th anniversary as a Serie A player. To mark the occasion, Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport has published a lengthy interview with the 36-year-old Roma legend, in which he reveals he would like to reach 300 goals (he is currently on 226), he wants to play until he is 40, his strongest opponent …

Small companies struggling to repay loans in Italy and Spain signal bigger problems on the horizon for the euro zone after the dust has settled on Cyprus’s last-ditch bailout this week. Defaults by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), easily the biggest employers in Spain and Italy, are rising at a worrying clip, spelling trouble for the banks and two countries at the heart of Europe’s …

When crooked American financier Bernie Madoff was sentenced in New York, the leading Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera published a front-page cartoon mocking Italy’s trial system. On one side was a US courtroom, where a judge was handing down a 150-year sentence after a six-month trial. On the other, an Italian courtroom with a judge …

(G. La Delfa – The Huffington Post Italy) Lately my days (every single one of them) have been exhausting! Andrea Giuseppe joined our family seven months ago, and his arrival provoked a minor earthquake in our daily rhythms. But what a beautiful earthquake! Like every working mom, I find it hard to honor all my …

Italy’s center-left made a last-ditch appeal to other parties on Thursday to clear the way for a new government before its leader, Pier Luigi Bersani, reports back to President Giorgio Napolitano later in the day. Bersani, whose alliance fell short of the majority it would need to govern after last month’s election, has made little headway …

Amanda Knox, the young American whose murder conviction in Italy captured attention around the world, learned Tuesday that Italy’s highest court has overturned a lower court’s 2011 decisionto dismiss that verdict. A retrial has been ordered. So it appears likely the case against Knox and her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, who were charged in the 2007 murder … Continue reading →

(Il Sole 24 Ore – R. D’Alimonte) Minority governments are neither an anomaly nor a rarity. What Pier Luigi Bersani (invested with the responsibility to form a government by the president) is trying to do, as we speak, is quite common in several countries. In Denmark, for instance, these governments have been more frequent than majority … Continue reading →

Ciro Immobile‘s 59th-minute goal in Bassano del Grappa made it two wins in the space of four days for Devis Mangia‘s Israel-bound Azzurrini. After beating Russia 2-0 on Friday, Devis Mangia‘s Italy defeated Ukraine with a second-half goal from Ciro Immobile yesterday night in their last friendly before the UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Israel. Genoa CFC … Continue reading →

Italian banks racked up steep losses in European trading on Monday as investors began to grasp the implications of the Cyprus bailout: For the first time in Europe’s five-year-old debt crisis, depositors will have to shoulder some of the burden of bailing out troubled lenders. Intesa Sanpaolo SpA (ISP.MI), Italy’s largest bank by domestic assets, … Continue reading →

(Il Sole 24 Ore – A. Quadro Curzio) The bankruptcy of Cyprus and its exit from the euro, with unpredictable consequences for the European Monetary Union (EMU), has been averted, fortunately. The risks were there, even if the Cypriot GDP accounts for only 0.18 percent of the EMU’s, as contagion can also spread from a … Continue reading →

Magdi Allam, former vicedirector of Corriere della Sera and European MP since 2009, a well-known Egyptian-born Italian citizen baptized into the Catholic Church by Pope Benedict XVI after being raised in a Muslim family, announced his journey with Catholicism had ended with the resignation of the pope who baptized him. “The factor more than any … Continue reading →

Q: Why did you decide to make a comedy? Matteo Garrone: I wanted explore a different genre and I really wanted to do a comedy. I think there are a lot of things in common with all my work. Gomorrah was a movie about the crime system, and about a victim of the crime system. … Continue reading →